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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.

Teresa of Avila

All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing

For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.

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